visual_studio_code_extensions

Ansible Role: Visual Studio Code Extensions

Role to install extensions for the Visual Studio Code IDE / text editor.

Requirements

Ansible >= 2.8
OS
- Linux
  - Debian Family
    - Ubuntu
      - Xenial (16.04)
      - Bionic (18.04)
  - RedHat Family
    - CentOS
      - 7
    - Fedora
      - 31
  - SUSE Family
    - openSUSE
      - 15.1
  - Note: other versions are likely to work but have not been tested.
- macOS
  - Consider macOS support experimental as this time as it's not included in the automated tests.

Role Variables

The following variables will change the behavior of this role (default values are shown below):

# The VS Code build (either 'stable' or 'insiders') https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders/
visual_studio_code_extensions_build: stable

# Users to install extensions for
users: []

Users are configured as follows:

users:
  - username: # Unix user name
    # Extensions to be installed if not already present
    visual_studio_code_extensions:
      - # extension 1
      - # extension 2
    # Extensions to be uninstalled if not already absent
    visual_studio_code_extensions_absent:
      - # extension 3

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - role: gantsign.visual-studio-code-extensions
      users:
        - username: vagrant
          visual_studio_code_extensions:
            - streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker
            - wholroyd.jinja
            - ms-python.python
          visual_studio_code_extensions_absent:
            - seanmcbreen.Spell

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Development & Testing

This project uses Molecule to aid in the development and testing; the role is unit tested using Testinfra and pytest.

To develop or test you'll need to have installed the following:

Linux (e.g. Ubuntu)
Docker
Python (including python-pip)
Ansible
Molecule

Because the above can be tricky to install, this project includes Molecule Wrapper. Molecule Wrapper is a shell script that installs Molecule and it's dependencies (apart from Linux) and then executes Molecule with the command you pass it.

To test this role using Molecule Wrapper run the following command from the project root: